Rolf Dekens NSC
Director of Photography
Born September 18, 1978
Living in Los Angeles, California
Living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Member of the Netherlands Society of
Cinematographers (NSC).
Awards & nominations
Secrets of War
Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Winner Adult’s Jury Award.
Castellinaria International Festival of Young Cinema
Winner Golden Castle.
Toronto Film Festival Official Selection.
Dutch Film Festival
Winner Golden Calf Special Jury Award.
Stony Brook Filmfestival
Winner Audience Choice Award.
Tromso Film Festival Norway
Winner Best Film.
Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Wiplala
India International Children’s Film Festival
Winner Best Film.
Mill Valley International Film Festival
Winner Audience Gold Award.
Voorbij
Eye Film Institute
Official Selection Best Dutch Shorts
The President
Tiburon California International Film Festival
Winner Best Comedy.
Faith
Coney Island Film Festival Winner
Best Short Film.
Indie Spirit Film Festival
Winner Best Narrative Short
Lighthouse International Film Festival
Winner – Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film
Bunny
Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival.
Official Selection Gold Coast International Film Festival.
Official Selection Williamstown Film Festival
First day of peace
Slamdance Winner
Best Narrative Short.
Filmography
Feature Film selected work
Dead Again in Tombstone
Universal Pictures – Roel Reiné
Storm
Phantavision – Dennis Bots
Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Wiplala
BosBros – Tim Oliehoek
Secrets of War
Bijker Film / Rinkel Film – Dennis Bots
Chez Nous
BosBros – Tim Oliehoek
The President
Lemming Film – Erik de Bruyn
Pizza Maffia
IDTV FILM – Tim Oliehoek
Spy of Orange
Fu Works – Tim Oliehoek
Alibi
NL Film – Johan Nijenhuis
Too Fat Too Furious
Fuworks en Motel Film – Tim Oliehoek
Short Film selected work
Baron 1898
Bijker Film & TV – Tim Oliehoek
Voorbij
Lake Productions – Elbe Stevens
Flight of Life
Samurai Films – Elbe Stevens
Anatole
Lake Productions – Elbe Stevens
Bunny
Columbia University New York – Robert Snow
First day of peace
Columbia University New York – Mirco Rucnov
Faith
Columbia University New York – Erik Pagan
Drama TV mini selected work
Tokyo Trial // Netflix Original Series
NHK/Fatt/Don Carmody – Rob King/Pieter Verhoeff
The Fall of Aantjes
Waterland Film – Anne van der Linden
Eileen
Samurai Films – Elbe Stevens
Godforsaken
Pupkin Film – Tim Oliehoek
2nd unit DOP / Camera operator selected work
The Hitman’s Bodyguard
Millennium Films – Patrick Hughes
Hard Target 2
Universal Pictures – Roel Reiné
Admiral
Farmhouse Productions – Roel Reiné
The Man with the Iron Fist II
Universal Pictures – Roel Reiné
Tricked
Entertainment Experience – Paul Verhoeven
Nova Zembla
Eyeworks Film & TV – Reinout Oerlemans
Lahore
Warner Bros/Sai Om Films – Sanjay Chauhan
Chaos
Mobius International – Tony Giglio
Commercial selected work
Amstel
Bijenkorf
Disneyland Paris
Danone
Fiat
Heineken
KPN
McDonalds
Telfort
Quaker
Music videos selected work
Hans Zimmer
Live on Tour – Tim van Someren
Armin van Buuren
This is what it feels like – Svenno Koemans
Armin van Buuren
Shivers – Svenno Koemans
Within Temptation ft. Xzibit
Hamman Media- Tim Smit
Wouter Hamel
Corrino – Joost Ruigrok